Hello all - some guidance needed please (and if anyone has been a whistleblower before please share your experience!)
I recently started in a new job (not a management role). Whilst I like my colleagues and the organisation seems to be a good one to work for, I am involved in a project at the moment around compliance with regulatory standards and it’s not going well. From day one it has been a nightmare: the process was not well designed and as such failed early on, and I’ve had to rework it to at least get it functioning at a reasonable level. This means that currently we aren’t meeting our compliance obligations. I am the person ‘on the ground’ trying to make it work and actually carry out the process; I was not involved in the initial design or discussions with other stakeholders.
Meanwhile, I have raised the non-compliance issue internally with my line manager, senior staff, the senior staff above those staff, all without much impact. I am now at a bit of a loss for what to do next. I am not sure whether to internally try escalating it to see if that helps or to go nuclear and shop the organisation to the regulating body. Has anyone got experience of doing this?